EPHEMERAL CITY

Ahmedabad city has built upon its access to the Sabarmati river and has always evolved around it. This historical seasonal river during the dry season gets reduced to small streams while monsoon the river would flood. The temporary nature of the Sabarmati river serves as an essential source of water for daily life, farming, and recreation. Having a river in the center of the city, it becomes a large public open space for the people to use it. In order to connect people to the river by accepting the river’s natural seasonality by having temporal infrastructures that can use for community enjoyment. The structure becomes temporary, walls are moveable, one can dismantle it according to the need. The change of the light makes the spaces livelier and more porous. In a way the structures are never fully complete, instead, they exist in a state of constant change and motion. Such a system allows each piece a remarkable degree of flexibility within the system – it can be moved, used, and reused in multiple ways.
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